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Chrono Cross is a PlayStation RPG created by Squaresoft (now Square Enix) with a story that parallels Chrono Trigger. Chrono Trigger had a "sequel" released in JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh called Radical DreamersRadical Dreamers is a video game produced by Squaresoft. The game was released in Japan in 1996 through the Satellaview add-on for the Nintendo Super Famicom. Radical Dreamers is a role-playing game in which the player takes the role of Serge, a young adv for the SatellaviewThe Satellaview was an modem add-on for Nintendo's Super Famicom system in Japan. The system would connect to the St. Giga satellite radio station, and during a limited time (between 4:00 and 7:00 PM), one could download video games and receive news about add-on for the Super FamicomSNES, though the controllers are almost the same. The console is similar to the European SNES. Super Famicom ( Japanese:) was a videogame console released by Nintendo in Japan. For information about the North American and European versions of this console, but it was text-based only. When Chrono Cross was being designed, part of the Radical Dreamers' plot and characters were used. But Chrono Cross can't be viewed as a mere remake of Radical Dreamers as they have a lot of differences and incompatibilities. Chrono Cross was well received in the United States, but lacking Japanese sales lead some to speculate that the Chrono series was halted.

Chrono Cross was released in United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in in the year 2000 and features music composed by Yasunori MitsudaYasunori Mitsuda ( , b. January 21, 1972) is a Japanese composer and musician best known for his soundtracks for various video games. Biography Mitsuda was born in Tokuyama, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, and raised in Kumage. As a child, he took piano less.

The game has over 40 possible party members to acquire, although only about 10 of them have strong subplots, relate much to the overall game plot, or have distinctive abilities of their own.

The plot itself revolves around Serge's unknowing efforts to free Schala from the Time Devourer, a fusion of Lavos, the ultimate enemy with the capacity to destroy the planet from Chrono Trigger, and Schala, a princess of Zeal and sister of Magus who has immense magical power and disappeared to the Darkness Beyond Time accidentally due to Crono's influence in history. Years in the future, Belthasar, a former guru of Zeal, discovered that the Time Devourer had formed and planned to consume all spacetime; he thus set in motion an almost ludicrously complex chain of events meant to give rise to and guide Serge to venture to the Time Devourer and use an artifact known as the Chrono Cross to restore the dimensions to one and free Schala from Lavos's grasp.

While Chrono Cross incorporates elements from Radical Dreamers, the stories of the two games are incompatible. To resolve the scenario continuity issue and to acknowledge the existence of Radical Dreamers, the designers suggested that the events of Radical Dreamers did happen, but took place in a parallel dimension. This can be found by reading one of the computer consoles in Chronopolis, a city which was pulled back in time due to a failed experiment. Chronopolis now monitors the El Nido Archipelago, in an attempt to prevent a paradox from occurring which would prevent its existence in the future.